Champ Bailey has been living off his reputation for a while now. You could see that when he got torched by the Ratbirds in the playoffs two seasons ago, and this past year he was covered up by an offense that outgunned virtually everybody.

The whole defense was exposed in the Super Bowl, and he looked really, really old, far removed from anything resembling his Pro Bowl days.

It was to nice to speculate about a contract renegotiation to keep him in Denver but let's be honest. The amount of money he'd have to come down to would flat out being embarrassing coming from the Broncos. A player can go somewhere else and sign a lowball offer and still keep his dignity. He can't take a 80% pay cut from the team that was set to pay him $10 million.

Thank god. Finally. Champ Bailey was never worth what they were paying him. He let almost everything past him, in the selfish interest of only going for interceptions to pad his stats. Maybe now we get an actual CB.

My dear Broncos fan co-worker was all psyched when Bailey came back for the playoffs. "He's gonna shut down that half of the field," he told me. "Wilson won't have anyone to throw to." What really happened is that Bailey flailed helplessly as Seattle receivers shot past him time and time again.

It was to nice to speculate about a contract renegotiation to keep him in Denver but let's be honest. The amount of money he'd have to come down to would flat out being embarrassing coming from the Broncos. A player can go somewhere else and sign a lowball offer and still keep his dignity. He can't take a 80% pay cut from the team that was set to pay him $10 million.

Ask Brian Urlacher how that worked out for him. The Bears offered him a contract; he refused. No other team offered him a contract. Now he biatches about not having gotten any respect from the Bears even though he was offered $2 mill for one last season when it looked obvious that he was no longer an elite player the year before.

germ78:worlddan: I guess Champ thinks he can make more money elsewhere.

Ask Brian Urlacher how that worked out for him. The Bears offered him a contract; he refused. No other team offered him a contract. Now he biatches about not having gotten any respect from the Bears even though he was offered $2 mill for one last season when it looked obvious that he was no longer an elite player the year before.

Steelers did the same with Harrison. Offered 3m and he turned it down. Now he makes vet minimum with the Bengals.

steamingpile:germ78: It's like Subby still thinks it's 2004 or something.

Yeah subby missed him getting smoked most of last year, hell I loved to watch him in his prime since I'm a Georgia fan but he's done. His speed is gone and that was what made him invaluable as a CB.

Biggest mistake Snyder ever made was that moronic trade because he didn't want to pay him, out of all the money he pissed away and he refuses to pay his star. Just idiotic.

"Biggest mistake Snyder ever made."

That's so laughable I can't bring myself to guffaw. Portis was really damn good for a fairly long time, that trade worked for all involved. Of the top 1,000 decisions Snyder has made in his tenure as owner, that one was in the top 2%.